long-windedadj.

Brit.

/ˌlɒŋˈwɪndᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈlɔŋˈˌwɪndᵻd/,

/ˈlɑŋˈˌwɪndᵻd/

Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and winded adj.¹; also Scottish 1800s– lang-wint.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, winded adj.¹

Etymology: < long adj.¹ + winded adj.¹ Compare earlier long-breathed adj.

1. Capable of doing something for a long time without becoming breathless; long-breathed, robust, enduring. Also: characteristic of prolonged effort or endurance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > fit

well-breatheda1425

long-breatheda1513

fitly1570

long-winded1578

as fit as a fiddle1603

toned1745

well-braced1859

fit1869

(as) fit as a flea1889

fighting-fit1891

pinkish1949

aerobicized1983

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lv. 217 Saffron taken in sweete wine causeth one to be long winded [Du. maeckt den asem lanck], & to fetch his breath easily.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 161 One poore peniworth of sugar-candie to make thee long winded .

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. G1 Pa. Are you in breath my Lord? Hort. As a bruers horse, and as long-winded.

1685 G. Langbaine Hunter ix. 79 These Drugs will make him long-winded; possibly they might assist him in Neighing.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 278 Long-winded both, as natives of the deep.

1758 Mickmakis & Maricheets 37 Men that pretend to foretel futurity..by frightful and long-winded howlings.

a1822 E. Sanford Humours of Eutopia (1828) II. x. 161 It fell into the hands of a long-winded and strong armed youth.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 93 I am younger and longer-winded than you.

1949 Times 24 Aug. 5/4 A long winded pair of batsmen might run it out until the ball was returned from the airfield.

2002 J. Cunliffe Encycl. Dog Breeds (new ed.) 88/2 The Kamtschatka dogs..were held to be the most long-winded runners in Siberia.

a. Of a person: given to tedious or unnecessary lengthiness in speech or writing. Of speech or writing: tediously long, prolix.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]

wordyeOE

talewisec1200

i-worded?c1225

babblinga1250

cacklinga1250

chatteringa1250

speakfula1250

word-wooda1250

of many wordsc1350

janglingc1374

tatteringc1380

tongueya1382

ganglinga1398

readya1400

jargaunt1412

talkative1432

open-moutheda1470

clattering1477

trattling?a1513

windy1513

popping1528

smatteringa1529

rattle?1529

communicablea1533

blab1552

gaggling1553

long-tongued?1553

prittle-prattle1556

pattering1558

talking1560

bobling1566

gabbling1566

verbal1572

piet1573

twattling1573

flibber gibber1575

babblative1576

tickle-tongued1577

tattling1581

buzzing1587

long-winded1589

multiloquous1591

discoursive1599

rattling1600

glib1602

flippant1605

talkful1605

nimble-tongued1608

tongue-ripe1610

fliperous1611

garrulous?1611

futile1612

overspeaking1612

feather-tongueda1618

tongue-free1617

long-breatheda1628

well-breathed1635

multiloquious1640

untongue-tied1640

unretentive1650

communicative1651

linguacious1651

glibbed1654

largiloquent1656

multiloquent1656

parlagea1657

loose-clacked1661

nimble-chop1662

twit-twat1665

over-talkativea1667

loquacious1667

loudmouth1668

conversable1673

gash1681

narrative1681

chappy1693

apposite1701

conversative1703

gabbit1710

lubricous1715

gabby?1719

ventose1721

taleful1726

chatty?1741

blethering1759

renable1781

fetch-fire1784

conversational1799

conversant1803

gashing1808

long-lunged1815

talky1815

multi-loquacious1819

prolegomenous1822

talky-talky1831

nimble-mouthed1836

slipper1842

speechful1842

gassy1843

in great force1849

yattering1859

babbly1860

irreticent1864

chattable1867

lubrical1867

chattery1869

loose-mouthed1872

chinny1883

tongue-wagging1885

yappy1909

big-mouthed1914

loose-lipped1919

ear-bashing1945

ear-bending1946

yackety-yacking1953

nattering1959

yacking1959

woofy1960

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix

tedious1412

prolix?a1475

prolixtc1485

longa1525

prolixious1577

long-winded1589

long-drawn1592

wire-drawn1603

long-breatheda1628

long-spun1633

pedalian1636

oblong1643

lacinious1648

long-lunged1660

lengthened1705

libertine1710

lengthy1759

incompendious1833

lengthsome1836

spun1869

lengtheninga1872

fine-drawn1888

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 48 Thou are longer winded then Deane Iohn is.

1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. iii. 64 Such a long-winded Discourse.

1696 M. Prior Secretary 8 For her, neither visits, nor parties at tea, Nor the long-winded cant of a dull refugee.

1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 230 A long-winded and multifarious dissimulation.

1769 E. Burke Let. 2 July in Corr. (1960) II. 41 I am no great friend, in general, of long-winded performances.

1841 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 29 May 178/1 Long-winded speeches are as bad as long-winded papers.

1884 Cent. Mag. 28 589 The long-winded old salts who come here to report their wrecks.

1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1979) 52 In my fear of a refusal, I made my request too long-winded.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes ii. 24 Why the hell were the delegates so long-winded?

2008 Daily Tel. 19 May 3/1 There's an awful lot of long-winded explanations of myths, legend and hieroglyphics in this story.

b. slang. Slow in paying a bill or a debt. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 65 We see cheating Collectors, squinting Bribe-mongers, embezling Pursers, long-winded Pay-masters, [etc.].

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Long-winded Pay-master, one that very slowly..Paies.

1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 24 Nov. 4/2 Several sorts of other Goods very reasonable for ready Pay. But as for my long winded friends, I utterly decline the Race.

1755 Spy 41 That some Means might be contriv'd to make their long-winded Customers fix a more moderate Time for Payment.

1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 98 A few of his customers, to use his own words, were rather ‘long-winded’, and he considered it ungenteel to ask a gentleman for money.

1871 Country Gentleman's Mag. July 60/1 Many farmers object to payments for journeys, and frequently are ‘long-winded’ in their mode of discharging accounts.

1975 A. G. Dickens in P. Brooks Christian Spirituality vii. 178 Parkyn shrewdly leaves this money towards the building of the steeple at Adwick, urging the churchwardens to demand it from the long-winded debtor.

3. That takes a tediously long time to do or happen; slow, drawn-out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > tediously long

elengec897

longOE

longsomea1400

infinite1585

long-winded1645

mortal1758

everlasting1761

longful1777

eternal1787

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xlii. 65 She onely stands upon the defensive part, untill the Catalan be reduced; and I beleeve, that will be a long winded busines.

1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 420 Shipt for the East-Indies, or some such long-winded Voyage.

1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 64 That every one might make Preparation for a War, which..would be more long-winded than the former.

1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. iv. 22 The French Tradesmen are incapable of entering upon such long-winded Methods to favour their Commerce.

1859 H. C. Coape tr. E. About Rom. Question xix. 262 The construction of railways will be a terribly long-winded affair.

1891 Law Times 92 106/2 Complicated provisions to suit the varying tastes of different owners..make conveyancing often seem long-winded.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 97 From to-day a child will be able to navigate a ship. No more long-winded calculations.

1966 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 12/1 Eliminating clumsy, long-winded, and irrelevant procedures.

1993 Which? June 36/2 Making home-made ice cream without an electric maker is a long-winded process.

Compounds

† long-winded whistler n. Nautical slang Obsolete a long-range chase gun.

ΚΠ

1829 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 210 When Crappo's unreeving your gear, and disabling your men and masts with his long-winded whistlers.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Long-winded Whistlers, chase-guns.

Derivatives

long-ˈwindedly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb] > in a lengthy or digressive manner

long-windedly1836

excursively1841

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > prolixly

prolixlya1591

dilatedly?1623

prolixively1633

longsomely1834

long-windedly1836

1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) ii. iii. 401 Theseus..longwindedly and perhaps unjustly upbraids poor Adastrus with his errors before he helps him.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xi, in Sunday Mag. Feb. 286/1 I may speak long-windedly, and even inconsiderately as regards my young readers.

1907 H. James Amer. Scene viii. 259 The quite sufficiently sturdy little timbered mass by the Salem street..runs the backward race as long-windedly as we may anywhere, over land, see it run.

2006 New Musical Express 25 Mar. 37/2 Music so long-windedly dull that, in 1976, the punk explosion was a matter of life and death.

long-ˈwindedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > speaking at great length or tedious lengthiness

long-windedness1648

longiloquence1836

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity

prolixityc1395

tediouste?a1412

diffusiona1413

diffuseness1474

tediousness?a1475

largeness1547

longness1587

prolixness?1590

length1597

longanimity1607

tediositya1625

wire-drawing1640

longinquity1641

long-windedness1648

diffusivenessa1719

sprawling1822

longsomeness1834

ramblingness1835

lengthsomeness1849

bagginess1860

lengthiness1863

governmentese1907

1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 96 You complain of long-windednesse in my stile.

1729 Ess. Pere Daniel's Hist. France 36 Some fall into a long-windedness at the same time that they study brevity.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. ii. 230 [They] make known, not without longwindedness, the determinations of the royal breast.

1874 A. Helps Social Pressure (1875) vii. 82 I hate long-windedness as much as you do..; but I cannot call good similes and metaphors padding.

1949 Life 12 Sept. 160/1 He came back from his reconnaissance convinced that neither sex has a monopoly on longwindedness.

2005 D. Hare Obed., Struggle & Revolt 1 Even a child knows to associate the word ‘lecture’ with adult superiority, long-windedness and boredom.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	long-winded
释义	long-windedadj. Brit. /ˌlɒŋˈwɪndᵻd/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˈˌwɪndᵻd/, /ˈlɑŋˈˌwɪndᵻd/ Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and winded adj.¹; also Scottish 1800s– lang-wint. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, winded adj.¹ Etymology: < long adj.¹ + winded adj.¹ Compare earlier long-breathed adj. 1. Capable of doing something for a long time without becoming breathless; long-breathed, robust, enduring. Also: characteristic of prolonged effort or endurance. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > fit well-breatheda1425 long-breatheda1513 fitly1570 long-winded1578 as fit as a fiddle1603 toned1745 well-braced1859 fit1869 (as) fit as a flea1889 fighting-fit1891 pinkish1949 aerobicized1983 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lv. 217 Saffron taken in sweete wine causeth one to be long winded [Du. maeckt den asem lanck], & to fetch his breath easily. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 161 One poore peniworth of sugar-candie to make thee long winded . View more context for this quotation 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. G1 Pa. Are you in breath my Lord? Hort. As a bruers horse, and as long-winded. 1685 G. Langbaine Hunter ix. 79 These Drugs will make him long-winded; possibly they might assist him in Neighing. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 278 Long-winded both, as natives of the deep. 1758 Mickmakis & Maricheets 37 Men that pretend to foretel futurity..by frightful and long-winded howlings. a1822 E. Sanford Humours of Eutopia (1828) II. x. 161 It fell into the hands of a long-winded and strong armed youth. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 93 I am younger and longer-winded than you. 1949 Times 24 Aug. 5/4 A long winded pair of batsmen might run it out until the ball was returned from the airfield. 2002 J. Cunliffe Encycl. Dog Breeds (new ed.) 88/2 The Kamtschatka dogs..were held to be the most long-winded runners in Siberia. 2. a. Of a person: given to tedious or unnecessary lengthiness in speech or writing. Of speech or writing: tediously long, prolix. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix tedious1412 prolix?a1475 prolixtc1485 longa1525 prolixious1577 long-winded1589 long-drawn1592 wire-drawn1603 long-breatheda1628 long-spun1633 pedalian1636 oblong1643 lacinious1648 long-lunged1660 lengthened1705 libertine1710 lengthy1759 incompendious1833 lengthsome1836 spun1869 lengtheninga1872 fine-drawn1888 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 48 Thou are longer winded then Deane Iohn is. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. iii. 64 Such a long-winded Discourse. 1696 M. Prior Secretary 8 For her, neither visits, nor parties at tea, Nor the long-winded cant of a dull refugee. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 230 A long-winded and multifarious dissimulation. 1769 E. Burke Let. 2 July in Corr. (1960) II. 41 I am no great friend, in general, of long-winded performances. 1841 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 29 May 178/1 Long-winded speeches are as bad as long-winded papers. 1884 Cent. Mag. 28 589 The long-winded old salts who come here to report their wrecks. 1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1979) 52 In my fear of a refusal, I made my request too long-winded. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes ii. 24 Why the hell were the delegates so long-winded? 2008 Daily Tel. 19 May 3/1 There's an awful lot of long-winded explanations of myths, legend and hieroglyphics in this story. b. slang. Slow in paying a bill or a debt. Now rare. ΚΠ 1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 65 We see cheating Collectors, squinting Bribe-mongers, embezling Pursers, long-winded Pay-masters, [etc.]. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Long-winded Pay-master, one that very slowly..Paies. 1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 24 Nov. 4/2 Several sorts of other Goods very reasonable for ready Pay. But as for my long winded friends, I utterly decline the Race. 1755 Spy 41 That some Means might be contriv'd to make their long-winded Customers fix a more moderate Time for Payment. 1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 98 A few of his customers, to use his own words, were rather ‘long-winded’, and he considered it ungenteel to ask a gentleman for money. 1871 Country Gentleman's Mag. July 60/1 Many farmers object to payments for journeys, and frequently are ‘long-winded’ in their mode of discharging accounts. 1975 A. G. Dickens in P. Brooks Christian Spirituality vii. 178 Parkyn shrewdly leaves this money towards the building of the steeple at Adwick, urging the churchwardens to demand it from the long-winded debtor. 3. That takes a tediously long time to do or happen; slow, drawn-out. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > tediously long elengec897 longOE longsomea1400 infinite1585 long-winded1645 mortal1758 everlasting1761 longful1777 eternal1787 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xlii. 65 She onely stands upon the defensive part, untill the Catalan be reduced; and I beleeve, that will be a long winded busines. 1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 420 Shipt for the East-Indies, or some such long-winded Voyage. 1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 64 That every one might make Preparation for a War, which..would be more long-winded than the former. 1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. iv. 22 The French Tradesmen are incapable of entering upon such long-winded Methods to favour their Commerce. 1859 H. C. Coape tr. E. About Rom. Question xix. 262 The construction of railways will be a terribly long-winded affair. 1891 Law Times 92 106/2 Complicated provisions to suit the varying tastes of different owners..make conveyancing often seem long-winded. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 97 From to-day a child will be able to navigate a ship. No more long-winded calculations. 1966 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 12/1 Eliminating clumsy, long-winded, and irrelevant procedures. 1993 Which? June 36/2 Making home-made ice cream without an electric maker is a long-winded process. Compounds † long-winded whistler n. Nautical slang Obsolete a long-range chase gun. ΚΠ 1829 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 210 When Crappo's unreeving your gear, and disabling your men and masts with his long-winded whistlers. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Long-winded Whistlers, chase-guns. Derivatives long-ˈwindedly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb] > in a lengthy or digressive manner long-windedly1836 excursively1841 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > prolixly prolixlya1591 dilatedly?1623 prolixively1633 longsomely1834 long-windedly1836 1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) ii. iii. 401 Theseus..longwindedly and perhaps unjustly upbraids poor Adastrus with his errors before he helps him. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xi, in Sunday Mag. Feb. 286/1 I may speak long-windedly, and even inconsiderately as regards my young readers. 1907 H. James Amer. Scene viii. 259 The quite sufficiently sturdy little timbered mass by the Salem street..runs the backward race as long-windedly as we may anywhere, over land, see it run. 2006 New Musical Express 25 Mar. 37/2 Music so long-windedly dull that, in 1976, the punk explosion was a matter of life and death. long-ˈwindedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > speaking at great length or tedious lengthiness long-windedness1648 longiloquence1836 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity prolixityc1395 tediouste?a1412 diffusiona1413 diffuseness1474 tediousness?a1475 largeness1547 longness1587 prolixness?1590 length1597 longanimity1607 tediositya1625 wire-drawing1640 longinquity1641 long-windedness1648 diffusivenessa1719 sprawling1822 longsomeness1834 ramblingness1835 lengthsomeness1849 bagginess1860 lengthiness1863 governmentese1907 1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 96 You complain of long-windednesse in my stile. 1729 Ess. Pere Daniel's Hist. France 36 Some fall into a long-windedness at the same time that they study brevity. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. ii. 230 [They] make known, not without longwindedness, the determinations of the royal breast. 1874 A. Helps Social Pressure (1875) vii. 82 I hate long-windedness as much as you do..; but I cannot call good similes and metaphors padding. 1949 Life 12 Sept. 160/1 He came back from his reconnaissance convinced that neither sex has a monopoly on longwindedness. 2005 D. Hare Obed., Struggle & Revolt 1 Even a child knows to associate the word ‘lecture’ with adult superiority, long-windedness and boredom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1578
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